Vote for the November 2012 book of the month

Vote for the November 2012 book of the month#104270

By Eckhart Aurelius Hughes - October 2nd, 2012, 10:54 pm

- October 2nd, 2012, 10:54 pm #104270

Please use this topic to cast your vote for the November 2012 philosophy book of the month. The poll will be open for 10 days from the time of this post. Whichever book has the most votes by then will be the November book of the month. Click on the following links for more information about each book:

On the Internet (Thinking in Action) by Hubert L. Dreyfus

After Tocqueville: The Promise and Failure of Democracy by Chilton Williamson, Jr.

Sophist by Plato

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Re: Vote for the November 2012 book of the month#104844

By Chinny - October 8th, 2012, 2:20 pm

- October 8th, 2012, 2:20 pm #104844

If we end up going with Sophist, it is very unlikely that everyone will be using the same translation, since there are dozens of translations available. The best we can hope for is that everyone use a translation that sticks with the Stephanus pagination, so that when a passage is quoted, we know where the passage is coming from; page numbers do obviously do not line up across the many translations.

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